Example sentences of "his [noun sg] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His algorithm was applied to the New York Times News Wire Service and produced various lists of collocational expressions from length two to six . |
| 2 | And it had on painted hose of black and white , so cunningly painted that no man who saw them would have thought but that they were grieves and cuishes , unless he had laid his hand upon them ; and they put on it a surcoat of green sendal , having his arms blazoned thereon , and a helmet of parchment , which was cunningly painted that every one might have believed it to be iron ; and his shield was hung round his neck , and they placed the sword Tizona in his hand , and they raised his arm , and fastened it up so subtilly that it was a marvel to see how upright he held the sword . |
| 3 | And in An Ideal Husband ( Globe Theatre ) their marriage and his livelihood are threatened by the appearance of the Cruella de Ville-like Mrs Cheveley who has blackmail and greed on her mind . |
| 4 | At the same time , Nietzsche 's stance , though extremely favourable , is still critical , and his enthusiasm is qualified by a certain self-conscious humour : witness the blandly ironic use of " wholesome " ( ein Gesunder ) and the self-deflating " etc. " , which in the German original is preceded by an extravagantly formulated double rhyme : die ethische Luft , der faustische Duft , Kreuz , Tod und Gruft etc . |
| 5 | I 'm always worried that his enthusiasm is stretched to the limit |
| 6 | His enthusiasm was shared by Seville superstar Diego Maradona , who described the irrepressible Keane , happier in midfield than the centre back role he sometimes fulfils for Forest , as an ideal team-mate . |
| 7 | BERNARD Weatherill , Speaker of the House of Commons until his successor is elected on April 27 , tells me that he will not be writing his memoirs — unlike his predecessors Selwyn Lloyd and George Thomas ( now Lord Tonypandy ) . |
| 8 | CANADIAN Prime Minister Brian Mulroney resigned as Conservative Party leader yesterday and will step down as prime minister when his successor is picked in June to lead the party into autumn elections . |
| 9 | His successor was determined to be no less a guardian of the strictest orthodoxy . |
| 10 | His successor was named as Kerim Aydin Erdem , who was reported to be sympathetic to the Islamic faction . |
| 11 | His resignation was followed by the expulsion from the Communist Party of its former leader , Mr Milos Jakes . |
| 12 | While emphatically denying that he had acted improperly — Richardson claimed that his resignation was motivated by the desire to avoid damaging the ALP 's prospects in the next federal elections , due by mid-1993 — he admitted meeting Symons in his Senate office , writing a reference for him , and telephoning Amata Kabua , President of the Marshall Islands , after Symons was arrested . |
| 13 | Poltoranin claimed that his resignation was motivated by the need to protect Yeltsin from opposition attacks , but also referred to " a series of reasons " concerning the media , thought to refer to the dismissal of the Ostankino broadcasting company chairman [ see below ] . |
| 14 | His resignation was announced within hours of Olsen 's . |
| 15 | Shevardnadze would continue in office until his resignation was considered by the Supreme Soviet at its next session , beginning at the end of December . |
| 16 | Mr Nemeth , a strong adherent of neo-monetarist measures to resolve the country 's fiscal crisis , accused his party colleagues of failing to support him as head of government and claimed his resignation was guided by national rather than party interest . |
| 17 | His progress is assessed on his ability to respond promptly and without feeling to whatever is asked . |
| 18 | If his progress is transferred to the Flat , he will look embarrassingly well treated here . |
| 19 | His progress was crowned in April 1317 by his marriage to Elizabeth de Clare , one of the three sisters and co-heiresses of the former Earl of Gloucester , for which again he had Edward to thank . |
| 20 | Last year his progress was threatened by lack of funds . |
| 21 | The following day he was still 300 metres below the summit of the Jorasses , and although the climbing was now easier , his progress was slowed by fragile rock and deteriorating weather . |
| 22 | Sir Horatio Palavicino , an exceptionally wealthy man , complained when his income was assessed at £80 . |
| 23 | The only knight there , Sir Henry Clinord of Carieton , was assessed at a wretched £8 in moveables , although his income was given as £80 a year . |
| 24 | His income was supplemented from the sale of musical instruments and small antiques . |
| 25 | Of large build and possessed of ritual mannerisms when facing the bowling , his technique was founded in the securest of defence , and , although he was a shrewd placer of the ball , it was perhaps his seeming doggedness that left him out of the international reckoning at a time when England possessed several middle-order batsmen of sterling class . |
| 26 | His vomit was streaked with blood . |
| 27 | His own thinking over the next three years was developed , accordingly , through successive disagreements with Lyell 's views on the organic world , while he continued to accept his mentor 's teaching on the physical world of land , sea and climate changes . |
| 28 | At this point the effects of his negligence were overtaken by the effects of the second tort ( the armed robbery ) . |
| 29 | But then Stuart meets a little girl who is fully human but every bit as short as Stuart , and his heart is lost to her . |
| 30 | His body lies in Westminster Abbey , but his heart is buried in Africa . |